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WHAT TO MAKE 
AND PLAY 

Other Title* 

In and Out-of-Door Play Games 
Party Twins and Their Forty 
Parties. Plays and Games 
Easy Drawing- Primer 
Busy Fingers Drawing Primer 
Knowledge Primer Games 
Fun-Artists Picture Show Book 



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INTRODUCTION 


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£ 

£ 'pHE enthusiastic reception of my first 
drawing book (“Busy Fingers Drawing 
Primer”) has hastened the publishing of 
this new way to become an artist—“Easy 
Drawing Primer.” 

How to Become an Artist? has always re¬ 
mained a great question to many people who 
would have liked a ready medium to aid 
them in learning the rudiments of express¬ 
ing in pictures their impressions of places 
and objects they have seen. 

Anybody who can write can learn to draw 
by practice of the methods for the attractive 
material in this delightful and unusual book. 


'J'HE keen joy of achievement never bears 
greater thrill than in the days of child¬ 
hood. To be able to make a good drawing 
makes the happy boy or girl far happier than 
kings. 

Encourage drawing in your young people, 
you will be rendering them a real service. 
Drawing cultivates better taste, which will 
be applied to their dress, decoration of their 
homes and even in the flowers they plant in 
their gardens. 

This book makes an ideal entertainment 
book for parties and can also be used as an 
autograph or friendship book. 

COBB X. SHINN. 


EASY DRAWING 

PRIMER 



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TDETER RABBIT shows us the trick of 
drawing the “Wise Owl” and it is very 
easy to do. Every boy and girl should be 
able to make a dandy picture of this “Hand¬ 
some Fowl.” Now make your little eyes 
get busy and hunt up your pencil. Then, 
after you have found it, make your little 
fingers get busy and use it. 


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TytlHILE the Blue Jaj’ is a member of the 
' " Crow Family, he is not such a plunderer 
as the Crow. In fact, he does a great deal 
of good by eating the many insects that feed 
on the foliage of trees. He is one of the 
birds that live with us all the year. What 
an attractive picture he makes in the bleak 
December landscape, with his blue coat upon 
the snow covered fields! He has a bad habit 
of being meddlesome. This makes him very 
unpopular in bird society and when he ap¬ 
proaches a tree, the other birds fly away. 


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HE 15 A MEMBER AF THE CKjAYy FAMILY 



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QLD DOCTOR STORK is a funny old 
^ bird and is very easy to draw. First 
you just make the number four, then place 
a long oval on the top of the four and now 
you can make his funny looking head. Then 
you start to put his clothes on him, his hat 
first, now his collar, coat and place an um¬ 
brella under his wing. There you have the 
Doctor complete. 


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TX7HEW-EE, whew-ee, whuit, whuit, 
whuit, purty, purty, purty,” he whis¬ 
tles. Everybody knows and loves to hear 
this song of the Red Bird. He is one of 
what the bird books call “Permanent Resi¬ 
dents,” for he is with us. the year round. 
And don’t you think it pleasant for all of 
us that a beautiful bird like the Red Bird 
lives with us through the long winter 
months? When the winter’s snows have 
covered the ground, do you ever think of 
paying him for his song with a few crumbs 
of bread? 


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'T'HE Crocodile does not have many friends; 

but his best friend is the Ziczac bird, for 
he warns him when danger is near. Just as 
the Rhinoceros bird warns its master, so does 
the Ziczac warn the crocodile. Also from 
the back of the crocodile the Ziczac picks the 
many insects which he eats. More wonder¬ 
ful still is the way the crocodile will hold its 
mouth open for hours at a time, letting this 
little bird run in and out of his mouth pick¬ 
ing the fragments of flesh which have col¬ 
lected between the crocodile’s teeth. 


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THE ZIC2AC 

'THE TOOTHPICK OF THE CROCODILE 



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TT GETS the name of Secretary Bird from 
the feathers that grow out of the back of 
its head, looking like quill pens behind the 
ear of a clerk. Its food consists of reptiles. 
Among them is included a great number of 
poisonous snakes. In Africa it is so highly 
valued as a foe to snakes that a fine is im¬ 
posed for killing it. In the zoos of the large 
cities of America you will always find one 
or more of these Secretary Birds. 



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The Sectary Bird 

FROM FAR Avy/\y AFRICA 



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YJiT HEN you first look at a Peacock you 
“ ’ would think that he was hard to draw. 
But if you will just start with an oval, you 
are going to find it easy to do. Then add his 
head. Now his feet and last of all his wings 
and beautiful tail. 


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'IX7HILE Penguin is a bird, he looks more 
' ’ like a scarecrow. His wings are very 
small and are more like the flappers of the 
seal; these help to make him a good swim¬ 
mer. But you would laugh to see him try 
to walk on those web feet, he lumbers over 
the ground like a boy with his feet tied in 
a sack. The Penguin lives in the far south, 
where great numbers of them will build a 
square village. Each family will have their 
little plot; the village has streets and lanes. 
If a member of another family gets oft his 
lot there is a lot of scolding and pushing 
until the neighbor has him out of their yard. 


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PENGUIN 

A QUEER BIRP FRflM THE ANTARCTIC RE&IAN5 



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HPAKE your pencil and see if you can draw 
the little chick in the space that is squared 
off. You’ll find it so easy to do that you will 
try it on a separate piece of paper. Erase 
the lines of the square when you have the 
picture completed. 


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"LJERE is a dandy lesson and so very easy 
A ' 1 to do. You can use your compass to 
make the two circles and then it is easy to 
make the bill and the eye. And not a bit 
hard to draw the tail and legs and feet. 
After you have made this one, try and see 
if you can make a picture of Chick running 
or trying to pull a fishing worm out of the 
ground. 


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T^HE easy way to copy pictures, is first to 
mark your picture off in squares. If you 
want to draw a large picture of this Rooster, 
first take a large piece of paper. Mark off 
a space twenty-seven inches long and eight¬ 
een inches long, then divide it up into spaces 
that are three inches square. You can see 
just what part of the rooster goes into each 
square and can’t help getting the right pro¬ 
portions. 


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"VT OU start with a circle to draw this 
Foolish Bird, Mister Ostrich, who be¬ 
lieves that if he can’t see you, that you can’t 
see him. He is the largest bird in all the 
world, but he can not fly. Oh! my! but how 
he can run and kick with those long legs. 





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lyT OST people say that the Crickets are 
singing, but they don’t sing. They 
make the noise with their wings by rubbing 
them together. On one wing there are ridges 
and scrapers on the other; he works them 
about like you would a violin. Only Mr. 
Cricket is able to play the tune of “Creakety- 
Crea-Crea,” for Mrs. Cricket’s wings have 
no ridges; she is expected to listen and ad¬ 
mire. Another very odd thing, about a 
Cricket is that he don’t breathe like you do, 
through a nose, but breathes through some 
tiny holes in the sides of his body. 


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"CREARETy-CREA-CREA’ ’ 

PLAYS THE MERRY MINSTREL 



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V 011 may not see this Little Friend very 
A often, but you do get to hear him a lot. 
Mr. Katydid is very hard to find because of 
his color and you have to look very close to 
see him swinging on a blade of grass. He 
is just as hard to catch as his cousin the 
Grasshopper and he can both jump and fly. 
a The next time you hear one, just try and 
see if you can find this pale green insect 
that says “Katydid.” 


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'IX7HILE a spider is not a very pretty 
** thing to look at, still this is a very 
good trick that the little Clown has worked 
out. Starting with a heart and just adding 
so very few lines, he changed it into a spider. 


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T'VID you ever notice how some people can 
tell you the name of almost every tree 
and they will be a half mile or so aw^y.fromj 
it? Of course, they tell by the shape of the 
tree. So if you are going to make a draw¬ 
ing of a tree, the first fjhing you want to do 
is to get the general shape of the’tree marked 
out first. After that ydu will find it very 
easy \to make a good drawing of most any: 
tree. \ V ! 



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HPHERE are fifty different species of oak 
that are native to America and there are 
over three hundred different kinds in the 
world. Nearly all of them grow to be large 
trees and add to the beauty of the landscape. 
You can always tell an oak by its acorn. 
The leaves are always oval in shape, leathery 
and cut by deep bays. The drawing is a 
White Oak, the noblest of trees. Its wood 
is used in making furniture, houses and rail¬ 
road ties. It grows to be 60 to 150 feet high. 


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TYID you know that the Common Dande- 
^ lion was not native of this country, but 
a European immigrant? Yet you will find 
it one of our best-known wild flowers from 
the Atlantic to the Pacific. Did you ever 
break the leaves or stem and see the bitter, 
milky juice flow freely? Of course every¬ 
one has bought its green jagged leaves on 
market for food in the springtime. The 
name dandelion, of course, refers to the 
jagged edge of the leaves. 


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'TVHE easy way to make a daisy, is first 
to make a dough-nut; don’t get the hole 
in the center too large. Then start to make 
the petals of the daisy. Now you are ready 
to make the stem and leaves. 


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TT IS very easy to make a paper carnation. 

Use tissue paper, white or pink, and cut 
ten pieces like drawing number one. Fold 
two or three sections as in picture number 
three. Then bind them around with a thin 
wire and leave a long end for a stem. Now 
push the remaining sections of number one, 
unfolded, close to the center. Add the green 
calyx (like drawing number two) and bind 
the stem with green. Cut your leaves about 
the same shape as drawing number four and 
put them on in pairs as you bind your stem. 


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TF YOU want to make a drawing that is 
pretty to look at, there are no better sub¬ 
jects than flowers. The Daffodil or Nar¬ 
cissus, whichever you want to call it, is 
very beautiful and is easy for your little 
fingers to make. First try making just a 
single flower and then try to make a 
bouquet of them. 


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'T'HE making of a drawing is very much 
like the building of a house. First of 
all you must have a foundation to build 
upon. Here a circle is used for the founda¬ 
tion of a rose. Little by little you add to 
the circle until you have completed the 
picture. 


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V OIJ would hardly think that this lot of 
A plates or circles could be turned into this 
beautiful potted flower, but the artist has 
shown you, step by step, just how it is done. 
It is very easy to do, so try and see if you 
can’t make one just as good as this one. 


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TF YOU should break the small end off of 
■*“ an egg, the shell would then be about the 
same shape as a tulip. So the easy way to 
draw a tulip is to make an egg first, then 
draw in the leaves of the flower. Now you 
are ready to add the stem and the other 
leaves. If you - want to make your drawing 
very pretty, you should take your water 
colors and tint your drawing. 


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TN MAKING nature studies it is the best 
rule to keep the drawing simple, using 
only a very few lines and making each line 
mean something. Then if you want to take 
your water colors and make a color drawing 
you will find it very easy to do. Try color¬ 
ing this drawing of peaches. 


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TAON’T you think it rather odd that this 
lot of circles can be made into an at¬ 
tractive drawing of a bunch of grapes'? You 
just make a lot of circles and show them to 
Mother or Father and see if they can guess 
what you can make of them. All you have 
to do is to blacken in the circles and leave a 
high light every now T and then in a few of 
the circles. 


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Yjir AY up in the Land of Ice and Snow, 
' ' lives our Little Friend the Esquimau. 
He loves to go fishing just the same as any 
little boy or girl, but he has to chop a hole in 
the ice. And here we have the picture of 
him, which is very easy for you to draw. 


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ffAES FISH INS 



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T^HIS strange animal lives along the coast 
of Florida. It comes up the rivers and 
lagoons, where it feeds on grass and other i 
i water plants. Some of them grow to the ( 
; length of 15 feet and weigh 1500 pounds.! 
i Their flesh is good to eat, but there is a pen¬ 
alty of $500 for killing one. They are a very 
mild and inoffensive animal, never wanting 
to fight one another or anyone else. In cap¬ 
tivity they soon learn to eat grass out of 
your hand. 


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A STRANGE CREATURE 

THE FLORIDA MANAT I 



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TN THE spring the salmon come out of the 
Pacific and swim up the rivers. IJp 
swirling rapids and jumping cataracts they 
go—on and on—until they reach the place 
where they were born. There they lay their 
eggs and die. The young salmon that are 
born from the eggs are only a year old when 
they begin to long for the open sea and go 
off down the river. But after two and a 
half years they come back, lay eggs and die 
as their parents did before them. 


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Kins of fresh-water fish 



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TT IS so easy to draw a frog that every 
A boy and girl should be able to make a 
fine picture of the fellow who sings us to 
sleep in the summer time. Starting with an 
oval and then adding to the oval little by 
little, the first thing that you know you will 
have made a dandy picture of Mr. Croaker. 


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'T’HESE strange beasts—Walruses, or Sea 
Horses—are found, in the Arctic Ocean 
along the borders of pack ice. On the shore 
they move slowly and with much difficulty, 
but in the water they are very much at home, 
for they are very good swimmers. The two 
long tusks are used for digging clams and 
other shellfish, which they gather on the 
bottom of the shallow sea for food. 


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OL' FUNNY FACE, 

^ THE PACIFIC \7ALF\US 



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THIRST you take a half of an English Wal¬ 
nut shell and lay it on a piece of paper 
and mark out the oval. It is better to use 
waterproof or oiled paper if you have it. 
Then draw the feet on the oval and then 
the head and tail. Cut it out and paste it 
on the bottom side of the shell, using a 
little sealing wax or chewing gum for 
paste. 


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[711 







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A on your little blackboard, because it is 
easy for you to erase on a blackboard. You 
can make it on paper just as well if you have 
no blackboard. If you like, you can make 
three separate cartoons, one of the “Funny 
Old Man,” then another of “Towser,” and 
still another of “Peter Rabbit.” 


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A CARJAVN FAF^YAU TA DRAY/ 



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T^HE drawing of the pig is very easy if 
you just would use this system of mak¬ 
ing one-inch squares. So now find your 
paper and pencil and make your fingers get 
busy and make the drawing. Then mother 
will be glad to loan you her scissors to- exit 
out Mr. Piggy. 


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A STORY PICTURE is always interest¬ 
ing; there are so many different stories 
that you can tell. These little figures are 
not hard to draw if you will just follow this 
system of making them in outline first. Try 
making this picture and if you want to 
make it tell a different story, why place a 
dog where the hat is and you will have a 
man trying to catch his dog. If once you 
get started to making story pictures, you 
find before you have one completed you 
have thought of another one. 


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T^ATHER will tell you, “Make a good start 
and you have the work over half done.” 
So be sure and get the heart just about the 
same shape as the one in the picture. Then 
little by little to add to it, until you erase the 
bottom part of the heart. 


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"C' VERY little boy and girl has read stories 
about the Sunbonnet Babies, but did 
you ever think that you would be able to 
draw pictures of them? And it is so very 
easy to do it, if first you draw a cone, then 
place a sunbonnet on the cone. Now you 
are ready to add the arm and feet. You can 
make the dresses any color and with most 
any kind of flowers on them. 


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TT’YERYBODY knows and loves this Fam¬ 
ous Little Movie Actor, so that is reason 
he should make one of the most interesting 
drawing lessons that has been printed. So 
get your pencil and paper and see what a 
fine drawing you can make of Jackie. 


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HHHERE is no need to tell you who this jolly 
man is that you draw by starting with 
two circles, one of them just a little smaller 
than the other. When you have all the fea¬ 
tures placed on the two circles, then you 
draw a pear and from the pear you make a 
pair of pants. 


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A LMOST everybody has seen this funny 
man, “Ben Turpentine,” in the movies. 
But did you ever think that you would be 
able to draw a picture of him? As you can 
see, it is very easy to do, if you will just 
follow the little system here. 


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T^O YOU want to draw a picture of Wild 
Bill, who is so bow-legged that he could 
not stop a pig in an alley? First you draw 
a circle and place a hat in it, then give him 
one eye, for the other one is covered up. 
Add an ear, nose and mouth. Now place two 
squares just under the circle; each square 
must be the same width as the circle with 
which you made his head. In these two 
squares you will find it very easy to fill 
in the body of Wild Bill. 


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"11I70ULD you just look what you can make 
out of two squares and one circle? Now 
don’t say that you can’t do it, just get your¬ 
self a pencil and some paper. Then make 
those little fingers of yours get busy. 


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TT IS useless to try to tell how to draw 
“Jackie,” for it is just as plain as the 
nose on your face. By this little system you 
should be able to draw Jackie just as good 
as the artist that made this picture. 


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‘LITTLE JACKIE ” 

YYHA SAILS THE SEVEN SEAS 



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"LJILDA will make you a dandy paper doll, 
one that you can cut out and color with 
your crayons or water colors. First, you 
draw a circle about three inches wide. Then 
fill in the features of the face. Just below 
the circle make a square the same width as 
the circle. Now fill in the waist and collar. 
Then add another square just the same size 
as the first square. Now you are ready to 
make the arms and skirt. Don’t forget to 
put on the funny wooden shoes. 


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“ "LJ APPY” is very easy to draw if you will 
just make a vase, then place a circle 
in the vase and another smaller circle on top 
of the first circle. Then, you are ready for 
the features of the face. His clothes are not 
hard to do, even if they are so different from 
the clothes that you wear. 


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A LEX’S clothes are very different from 
your clothes, but you will find them very 
easy to draw. Just follow this little system 
that the artist has made here and in a few 
minutes you can make a dandy picture of 
this Jolly Little Black Fellow from Egypt. 


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HP HE only place that you ever get to see 
A Pirates is in the movies. And you can read 
about them in story books, but did you ever 
try to draw the picture of one? Now here 
is about the best chance that you will ever 
have to draw one. It is very easy to do, so 
make your little fingers get busy with your 
lead pencil. 


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A T FIRST a Locomotive looks very hard 
to draw, but if you use a ruler and com¬ 
pass you will find it very easy to draw. Of 
course, you have to be careful and get the 
different parts in the right proportions. This 
is the only difficult part of making a draw¬ 
ing of a Locomotive. 


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THE EASY WAY TA PR AW 


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rpHIS is more a lesson in “Civic Attractive- 
ness” than it is a drawing lesson. Can you 
find a shed, barn or fence in your own back 
yard that you can draw? Then make an¬ 
other drawing of it and see if you can’t im¬ 
prove the looks of it in the same way. Have 
vines to cover the old dead trees or cover 
the unattractive old fence. Cannas, holly¬ 
hocks or other tall flowers planted by the 
fence will add to the beauty of the back yard. 
Large boulders placed along the walk will 
make the walk more attractive* and don’t 
forget to give the barn a coat of paint. 


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A\y TA MAKE THIS ALP BARM 


LVAK ATTRACTIVE 


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rPHE easy way to make Landscape Compo- 
sitions is to make them in Light and Dark 
or in just black and white. First of all, 
draw your sky-line across the paper, then 
place the largest object in the picture first, 
like the boat in the top picture, or the river 
in the lower picture. Then the next largest 
objects, like the Lighthouse or the trees in 
the lower picture. Then you are ready for 
the small details like shadows, clouds and 
birds. 


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LANDSCAPE CAMPASITIANS 
IN LIGHT AND DARK 



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TTERE are some dandy borders that you 
can use on the covers that you make 
for your school books. They would be very 
pretty on a lamp shade that you can make 
out of paper and don’t forget to use your 
water colors to color them. There are any 
number of things that you can use these 
borders on. 


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T'M IE first picture shows you just how to 
A divide the square into seven parts. The 
next picture shows you how the square is 
cut into parts. The last picture shows you 
just how to arrange the parts to make a 
wind mill. 


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AF COURSE you can make shadow pic- 
^ tures by just using your hands and 
fingers, but you can make a lot more diff¬ 
erent kinds if you yvill cut out hats for 
them. Just take a piece of cardboard—it 
does not have to be very heavy. Make the 
outline of the hat with lead pencil. Then 
lay your hand on the cardboard to see if 
you have the hat about the right size to fit 
on your hand. If you have, try and do a 
very neat job of cutting it out. And then 
you are ready to start your shadow picture 
show. 


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SHAPAW PICTURES 

FAF\YAUf\FINfrEf^ TA MAKE 



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1ITERE are some very interesting symbols 
from Indian Designs. They are very 
easy to draw. Also they are just the thing 
to use when you decorate your Indian Suit. 
It will be very easy to draw or paint them 
and make your suit look like a real Indian 
costume. If you like, try drawing a vase 
and use these symbols to decorate it, mak¬ 
ing the design tell a story. 


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INDIAN DESIGNS 

MOUNTAIN 


WAVES 


CLOUD 


MIST RISING 


A 


LI6HTNIN6 

HOUSES IN A VILLA6E. 

A WHIRLWIND ^^ n - 


THE 

FOUR. WINDS V 

AN ENEMY HAS 
"CROSSED OURTRML 



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TF YOU don’t want to make one of these 
Little Parrots out of a real peanut and 
crepe paper, you will find it a lot of fun to 
draw them. Starting with a peanut first, 
then the eye, then the tail and wings. If 
you like you can make the parrot a very 
fancy bird cage. 


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PAINT A PEANUT 
A BRIGHT BLUE. 
YELLOW, GREEN 
OR REP 


NSW PAINT T>IE EYES 
OR USE WHITE HEAD 
PINS 6N THE END 
THAT HAS THE HOOK 


CRAPE PAPER PASTED 
ON THE BACK WILL MAKE 
THE WINGS AND TAIL 



ONE OF DADO 
PIPE CLEANERS 
MAKES A 
DANDY PAIR 
OF LEGO 


A PIECE OF A PENCIL 
AND A LITTLE FINE 
WIRE MAKES THE SWING- 


co03 A. S/M* 


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rPHE next bag of peanuts that you get, 
just place one of them down on a piece 
of paper and then draw a line around him. 
This outline will make his body and it is 
very easy to fill in the features of the face 
and place legs and arms on them. There 
is still another way to make peanut boys and 
girls; draw the eyes and mouth upon the 
peanut, make his arms and legs of tooth¬ 
picks and kindergarten modeling clay will 
make the hands and feet. Tf you want, you 
can make dresses of paper for the girls. 


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YAU CAN MAKE THEM 

PEANUT EK7YS ANP 5IRLS 



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TN CHINA, many centuries ago, the first 
“Tangrams” was designed. Any child can 
make them by taking a square and cutting 
it up into seven pieces as shown here in the 
picture. Cut up three or four squares of 
black paper of different sizes. These will 
make enough pieces for you to make animals, 
birds, fishes, flowers or most anything that 
you wish. 


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FUN 


TANQ-RAMS 



HOW TO CUT TANCRAMS 
f^OM A SQUARE PIECE OF PAPER,^ ^ e>oy pgjNM inQ- 



A SAIL BOAT 


_L- 

A CANDLE STICK 



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TAID YOU ever want a neat little box to 
put your paper dolls or kodak pictures 
in? This picture shows you just how to 
make one just the size that you should hap¬ 
pen to need. All that you need is a piece of 
cardboard or heavy paper, a ruler, a sharp 
pencil and scissors. Mark off a space eleven 
squares long and six squares wide. Take 
the scissors and cut where you see the heavy 
black lines. Then fold your cardboard where 
you see the dotted lines. Then you are ready 
to paste the corners and have the box com¬ 
pleted. 


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"C* VERY little boy and girl has a book that 
they do not want to lose and. if you make 
a book plate for it you would almost be sure 
of not losing it. It is very simple to make 
by starting with a circle. And yet, if you 
want to you can also cut this one out and 
paste it in one of your books. 


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